The Met Office single site forecasts
After over a year of using it for Strathpeffer, I find the forecast usually wrong more times than it’s right.
UKMO
Brendan faster, deeper
Call it delusions of grandeur if you like, but sometimes I get the distinct impression that someone down in the forecasting office in Exeter does occasionally read some of the stuff I write on xmetman.
Light, or is that white at the end of the tunnel?
There are signs of a change in type at long last, and things could be about to turn more meridional towards the last week of January across the IONA.
How is Monday’s gale shaping up?
A few thoughts about low Fenja or should that be storm Brendan on Monday.
A windy Monday next week
Monday certainly looks like it will be very windy so it’s a fair bet that this could be named storm Brendan if Met Eireann have anything to do with it. Tuesday has the potential for being even windier across southern area as the secondary low looks well placed for rapid development.
Piteraq produces mean speeds of 79 with gusts to 112 knots
Well done to the Met Office model for spotting the likelihood of these piteraq winds occurring over eastern Greenland today.
Strong winds but which are they blowing?
Thursday is shaping up to be an interesting day with all the NWP models at sixes and sevens about exactly what track low Clara is taking
Normal service resumes at the Met Office
The Met Office has now come back into line with the GFS and ICON models for Thursday lunchtime
Models can’t seem to agree about Thursday’s low
I can’t work out how the UKMO model generates too separate lows when the others can only find one
Piteraq
On Wednesday the pressure difference in the forecast charts between the Greenland ice cap and the low in the Denmark straits is 61 hPa.
Stop Press – Met Office finally see reason!
It will be interesting to see who ends up right about this one
Who’d be a chief?
A bit of a dilemma for the chief.
